EMPLOYMENT OF TIME.
The celebrated Lord Coke wrote the subjoined couplet, which he religiously observed in the distribution of time:—
Six hours to sleep,—to law’s grave studies six,—
Four spent in prayer,—the rest to nature fix.
But Sir William Jones, a wiser economist of the fleeting hours of life, amended the sentence in the following lines:—
Seven hours to law,—to soothing slumber seven,—
Ten to the world allot,—and all to heaven.